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form y separately published work icon How Does Your Garden Grow? single work   radio play  
Adaptation of How Does Your Garden Grow : A Play Jim McNeil , 1974 single work drama
Note: The author of the adaptation has not been traced.
Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 How Does Your Garden Grow?
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'The play explores the interrelationship of three Australian prisoners but, rare in such dramas, retains an affectionate note of optimism: you cannot suppress the search for happiness. even in such a diminishing environment.'

Source: Radio Times, 27 November 1975, p.31.

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Production Details

  • Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 30 November 1975, from 10pm.

    Producer: Richard Wortley.

    Cast members included Nigel Graham (Sam), James Smilie (Hick), Paul Bertram (George), David Casey (First Officer), Henry Stamper (Second Officer), Trader Faulkner (Senior Officer / Levick), Miriam Margolyes (Mick's wife), and Gordon Costelow (Sweeper).

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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) ,       1976 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon The New Australian Drama United Kingdom (UK) : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) , 1975-1976 7952756 1975 series - publisher radio play

      A series of Australian plays adapted as radio plays for BBC's Radio 3 between November 1975 and January 1976.

      The series was introduced by Katharine Brisbane in a piece broadcast on 23 November 1975, and the first play in the series, Peter Kenna's A Hard God, was broadcast on 26 November 1975.

      The plays are listed below in broadcast order.

             Number in series: 2
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